Phew. That were some busy weeks. I think everything is back on track again, so I will (try to) post more pictures and posts.
This picture was created with the theme time in mind. It was the weekly challenge for the Strobist Sundays flickr group I try to enter each week. I found this week's theme perfectly fitting my personal time-management (or the lack thereof, to be honest).
No more of that. I promise you.
Here's more on the creation of this picture:
One of my flickr contacts regularly posts pictures of glasses, in all sizes and shapes, with or without content. I was immediately triggered by her pictures to have a go myself.
This picture was created with the theme time in mind. It was the weekly challenge for the Strobist Sundays flickr group I try to enter each week. I found this week's theme perfectly fitting my personal time-management (or the lack thereof, to be honest).
No more of that. I promise you.
Here's more on the creation of this picture:
One of my flickr contacts regularly posts pictures of glasses, in all sizes and shapes, with or without content. I was immediately triggered by her pictures to have a go myself.
I (that is my wife) bought these glasses some time ago, and I (and that's me) bought some cyan colored Ecoline ink, in order to play with the idea of creating a picture with a colored liquid, and an umbrella or something.
Boring.
So, the glasses remained on my desk, gathering dust, until I saw them standing one top-up, one top-down. Then I knew what to do with it. And that is where the mis-management of time started.
Readin the challenge for the group, I had to create time in order to create this picture. Come to think of it, I had to do some actual work too, but I guess it has slipped my mind earlier in the weekend.
Anyway: I started this picture on a white cardboard, with the white background. Somewhere along the way I put black cards to the side of the glasses (in order to generate black reflections). With those cards I also created a dark spot left and right in the upper glass. I could not deduct where these black spots came from, so I kept going and trying more stuff, until (75 shots later) I went back to look at the first couple of shots, without the cards, and found the problem.
However, meanwhile I changed the setup to black.
Which I didn't like. At all.
It had a cheap feeling to it, and i couldn't get the glasses to stand out.
Changing from the white to the black had been a lot of trouble, since I had to rebuild the whole setup, including thousands of red sand grains. Changing back from black to white was less trouble. I had had an epiphany when building the black setup and used a glass table with black paper below. Changing black paper to white was easy enough.
At this time I had found out the black cards generated the dull black spots. I moved the cards to the back of the glasses, so the dull reflections would not show on the front of the glasses, but would make the stem and the cup of the glasses stand out more.
The main light source had been a silver umbrella behind the camera already. I was quite happy with the light that generated and decided to leave it. When the black cards were finally in position, the 2 flashes to light the background practically jumped to the spot they should be by them selves.
In PhotoShop, there were some curves drastically adjusted, come colors (greens, blues, aquas and yellows) removed entirely, some colors almost doubled in intensity (I leave you guessing which ones), and a little spots and dust removed.
In the end, I am fairly satisfied with the result, but there is still room for improvement.
Cheers!
Boring.
So, the glasses remained on my desk, gathering dust, until I saw them standing one top-up, one top-down. Then I knew what to do with it. And that is where the mis-management of time started.
Readin the challenge for the group, I had to create time in order to create this picture. Come to think of it, I had to do some actual work too, but I guess it has slipped my mind earlier in the weekend.
Anyway: I started this picture on a white cardboard, with the white background. Somewhere along the way I put black cards to the side of the glasses (in order to generate black reflections). With those cards I also created a dark spot left and right in the upper glass. I could not deduct where these black spots came from, so I kept going and trying more stuff, until (75 shots later) I went back to look at the first couple of shots, without the cards, and found the problem.
However, meanwhile I changed the setup to black. Which I didn't like. At all.
It had a cheap feeling to it, and i couldn't get the glasses to stand out.
Changing from the white to the black had been a lot of trouble, since I had to rebuild the whole setup, including thousands of red sand grains. Changing back from black to white was less trouble. I had had an epiphany when building the black setup and used a glass table with black paper below. Changing black paper to white was easy enough.
At this time I had found out the black cards generated the dull black spots. I moved the cards to the back of the glasses, so the dull reflections would not show on the front of the glasses, but would make the stem and the cup of the glasses stand out more.
The main light source had been a silver umbrella behind the camera already. I was quite happy with the light that generated and decided to leave it. When the black cards were finally in position, the 2 flashes to light the background practically jumped to the spot they should be by them selves.
In PhotoShop, there were some curves drastically adjusted, come colors (greens, blues, aquas and yellows) removed entirely, some colors almost doubled in intensity (I leave you guessing which ones), and a little spots and dust removed.
In the end, I am fairly satisfied with the result, but there is still room for improvement.
Cheers!
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